Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-22
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

GESERAL SLocUM will attend the G.. A h.
reunion at St. Louis.
Jous II. SLADE 81 Co., insolyent dry
goods commission merchants of New
York owe $s57,97s, with assets of 1928,
9s3.
CALuoBsIA celebrated Friday the
thirty-seventh anniversary of its admis
sion to the Union.
The estimate yield of wheat in Michi-
gan this season is 22,062, $40 bushels. The
total number Of bushels reported market
ed to Aug. is l3,S06,700.
john Thomas Ross (oolored) who killed
Emily Brown, an aged white woman, and
sold her body to a medical college for
Sl5 was hanged at Baltimore at 1916 p.
m. Friday.
The election in the Creek Nation took
place Tuesday, tue returns indicating the
election as chief OF Legus Perryman,
who favors the sale of Oklahoma.
The famous jockey, Ed. West, died at
Saratoga Friday morning. He was in
Tired on the race track Aug. 20.
Brsnop WEAVER convened the annual
conference Of the United Brethren church
100 preachers present.
EpwIN GOULD and Sidney Shepherd
were, Wednesday, elected directors of the
Western Union Telegraph company in
place OF George u. Morgan and Henry B.
Hyde.
THE total flour product of the Minnoap-
oils mills for the week ending Sept. y
was 0,l00 barrels, against l57 400 bar
rels for the previous week and l42,8 800 for
the corresponding time in 1886.
j. G. BEAHDsLEE, a farmer Of Rockford,
Mich, died Of hydrophobia, Wednesday
He was bitten by mad dog several years
ago, and experienced no trouble with the
wound until Monday.
The steel stern post and stem of the
ne " government cruiser now being built
at San Francisco have been cast. The
stem weighs 10000 pounds, and is said to
be the largest casting ever made in
America.
The chief clerk of the Superior Court
of New York Monday rejected the appli-
cation OF Johann Most, the anarchist, to
become a citizen. Most said he would
appeal to the courts.
CONFESSION has been made by Charles p
Ide, bookkeeper of the First National
Bank, of Giens Falls, N. Y, that during
1880, 1881 aud 1882 he embeZzled Sl8, 100.
He was an officer of the Baptist Sunday
school.
TUE desert blossoms. Grapes and
fruit are shipped in large quantities from
Arizona and New Mexico. Las Cruces,
N. M, ships about 1000 pounds of grapes
daily to eastern and western markets,
THERE are thirty five Washoe Indians
now in the California hop. fields. large
crowd of Digger Indians are also at work,
The Washoes like the work and say they
will 90 home with "heaps of money
ABRAHAM BUEBASK, OF Pittsfeld, Mass,
aged So years, fell about thirty feet from
n scaffold on one of his buildings, strik
ing on his head and shoulders. He was
considerably Jared, but the next morn
ing wa 81 work apparently none the
worse for his big drop.
SUN for divorce has been brought at
New York by Mrs. Grace Dalton Terry
against her husband, Antonio h. Terry,
son of deceased Cuben planter. who
left an estate worth $5O,00o,00O. Mrs.
Dalton complains th8ther husband spends
too much of his time in the society of
actresses.
A CONFERENCE OF representatives OF the
Standard Oil Company and iudepeu
dent producers was held Monday to con
slider the adyisability of shutting down all
the wells in the country for the purpose
of restricting the production. Many of
the best known oil men in the country
were in attendance.
Tur safe OF the County Treasury at
Greenville, Ohio, was found open Monday
morning and large amount of money is
missing. County Treasurer Simon aud
his son were arrested, the father being
charged with embezzling $4,000, and
the boy with the larceny of $4,000.
Both waived examination and gave bail.
Simon's shoe store has also been closed
by the Sheriff. The new County Treas
urer was 20 assume charge Monday and
Simon claims the safe was rihed by rob
hArs